WASHINGTON: The fate of American democracy is in voters’ hands, President Barack Obama warned, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s battle for the White House went down to the wire. “The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders,” the US president warned voters in North Carolina, one of a handful of swing states where the now tighter race will be decided. Ireland’s Paddy Power had already paid out $1 million to punters who bet on Clinton, assuming her victory a foregone conclusion. But both of its Republican US Senators have opposed Trump, offering the tantalizing prospect of a shock Clinton win. The latest polls show him slightly behind Clinton in the state, but that did not dampen his rhetoric.

Source: Manila Times November 03, 2016 03:36 UTC